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Rally attendee Darneisha Coleman speaks to the crowd about further action beyond rallying and protesting. KATE SEAMAN | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

COMO FOR PROGRESS HOLDS DEMONSTRATION DEFENDING DACA

Rally organizers and Columbia citizens gathered outside Boone County Courthouse to show solidarity with the immigrant community.

MAWA IQBAL

Staff Writer

CoMo for Progress held a demonstration outside the Boone County Courthouse on Sept. 10 opposing President Donald Trump’s decision to rescind Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals last Tuesday.

The Defend DACA Demonstration attracted about 200 people from the Columbia area, with many of them waving American flags and carrying colorful homemade signs. These

posters included sayings such as “I stand with the dreamers,” “Keep the kids, deport the hate” and “Impeach the caca, keep DACA.” After Trump officially announced his decision to roll back former President Barack Obama’s act for children of undocumented immigrants in America, members of CoMo for Progress voiced their wishes to hold a rally to advisory board member

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MU associate professor’s book on American foster care system to be released in October Postdoctoral teaching fellow Cassandra Yacovazzi: “Her book raises the question of what our responsibility is to the community and the children in the community in which we live.”

MORGAN SMITH

Reporter

Associate history professor Catherine Rymph’s new book, “Raising Government Children: A History of Foster Care and the American Welfare State,” details the history of the 20th century foster care system in America and will be released this October.

Introduced to the subject through having family members connected to the system, Rymph’s

second book is the first to document one of the country’s more hidden fractions of the welfare state.

“I wanted to know something about what it was like in the past because I knew a little about what it was like in the present,” Rymph said. “I tried to find a history of the system, but there was no history.”

A nine-year project, Rymph’s research follows foster care’s evolution beginning with its formation in the 1930s through the end of the 1970s.

Two archival collections make up most of the primary sources that shaped the book, one of which includes the standard practices of foster families documented by the Child Welfare League of America.

The second collection is from the records of the Children's Bureau and includes letters sent mainly by women involved with the system. Written by both

mothers and foster mothers, the letters often asked for help in various situations.

“I got a lot of really gripping, really personal firsthand accounts of this subject, which I didn’t expect to find,” Rymph said.

“Case files are all closed to the public.”

Rymph said these letters made it possible for her to tell a more “human” story.

“I think currently there are a lot of negative feelings about foster children and foster parents,” Rymph said. “One of the things I tried to do in this book is help people try to understand what this system is like for them.”

Her work explores the functional problems of having a social welfare provision subsidized through private families and how lack of funds along with

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Katie Doherty. Although the group only had a few days to put the rally together, Doherty felt it was important to respond as soon as possible.

“It’s an emergency protest,” Doherty said. “There's a lot of anxiety in the immigrant community right now, so it’s crucial to highlight this

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RESEARCH

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Thompson Center hosts grand opening for research facility LAUREN BISHOP

Reporter

The Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders hosted a grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Thompson Center Research and Training Facility on Friday.

In 2016, former Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon proposed an allocation of $5 million of

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MU food science program celebrates 50 years The program looks forward to the future of food science in nutrition, preservation and modern technology.

GALEN BACHARIER

Reporter

It began as a patchwork project of sorts — faculty pulled from various programs, scattered throughout several buildings.

Now, the food science program boasts dozens of faculty, hundreds of students and continues to educate students on issues related to food production as it celebrates its 50th anniversary.

The program’s beginnings were humble. In the wake of other prestigious universities forming food science programs in the ‘60s, MU began its own, taking faculty from similar, existing programs and assigning them to the new food science division. “Animal husbandry provided folks that were interested in eggs, milk — dairy — and meat,� associate professor Andrew Clarke said. “Horticulture provided a gentleman who was interested in plant and biology subjects.

We had somebody in the area of nutrition and sensory evaluation that came out of the Gwynn Hall area. So basically think about meat, eggs, dairy — which has been a fairly large emphasis — and that became the nucleus for food science.�

Many faculty who were present for the program’s founding were commodity-focused; that is, their area of expertise was a certain food, rather than a broad discipline like many faculty now possess. “Food science can be viewed by commodities — meat, dairy, plant, eggs, etc. — or you can look at it from a disciplinary point, like the chemistry of all foods, or the microbiology, or

the technology aspect, sensory science,� said Ingolf Gruen, chair of the food science program and one of the faculty in charge of organizing the celebration. “Now, it’s usually a mix of people that you find in food science programs.�

Since that initial mixture of programs that was its genesis, the food science program has been driven by evolving technology toward new goals; in fact, modern food technology was already well on its way by the time the program formed. “The Institute of Food Technologists was established many decades before, in 1939, so awareness of food technology and so forth had been around for a long time, but actual departments at land-grant institutions took a bit of time to gel,� Clarke said.

The program commemorated the occasion with a series of special events from Sept. 1-2, and both current students and alumni were invited to attend. An open house began the festivities Friday night, followed by a social in the foyer of Eckles Hall. The open house allowed older alumni to get a look at the new facilities and space that the program has added in recent decades. “There have been some modifications, some additions, that our alumni do not know about,� Gruen said. “They can see the new laboratories — new, relatively speaking. New for them. So our students and our grad students will be there as well and find out what kind of research they’ll be doing.�

After dinner in the W.C. Stringer wing, one of the more recent additions that alumni got the chance to tour, faculty and administration unveiled a plaque celebrating the program’s 50 years. That plaque now hangs outside of Gruen’s office.

After breakfast the next morning, the open house

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continued into the afternoon and focused on current and incoming students, including a presentation on the “Past, Present and Future of the Food Science Program.�

Now, Clarke and Gruen, who have been a part of the program for 30 and 21 years, respectively, are working with fellow faculty and students toward even more breakthroughs in food preservation, including “clean labels� and, most importantly, working with nutritionists. “I think as it comes to the future, this whole concept of ‘let thy food be thy medicine’ — the idea of integrating food and nutrition with medicine and prevention of disease by proper nutrition — that then entails that we have to have the proper foods to have proper nutrition,� Gruen said.

Despite these new challenges, the program continues to focus on the constant issue of food preservation and safety. “We still have concerns about preservation and so forth because we anticipate a very strong growth in the population and we’ve got to not only deliver good, nutritious food, but it definitely has to have the safety component and it has to last long enough to get from point A to point B,� Clarke said.

As the program continues to focus on these issues using primarily Missouri-based food products, according to Gruen and Clarke, it educated students to work with any commodity around the country. “The idea is that the fundamentals of the program teach you about chemistry, about microbiology, about the transitive science that you might need to apply, and now you just change it to whichever commodity company that you wind up working for,�

Clarke said.

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CRISIS CENTER

MU researchers create framework to address domestic violence in disasters The framework provides strategies and objectives for responding to domestic violence in four phases of a disaster: mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery.

SARAH PETERSON

Reporter

Researchers from the MU Disaster and Community Crisis Center have developed a framework to help victims of domestic violence in disaster settings.

“Disasters are so huge; they’re so overwhelming,” said Nathan First, clinical instructor in the Department of Educational, School & Counseling Psychology. “Domestic violence isn’t often the first thing that someone thinks of, but it’s something that particularly first responders and

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providers need to be aware of, that the risk of DV [domestic violence] is higher.”

DCC is an interdisciplinary center that focuses on helping communities

and individuals prepare for and recover from disasters and crises.

Nathan, along with coauthors J. Brian Houston, associate professor of communication and director of DCC,

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New Hall remains unnamed, unfinished New Hall President Ryan Giesing: “There was a huge time crunch to get the hall ready. So, yes we are able to host students and have them live here, but we are not to the standard that the other halls are at.”

in the School of Social Work and research assistant for DCC, reviewed

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Some MU students could be affected by the end of DACA TATYANA MONNAY

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offering open, bi-weekly meetings where residents can address their concerns.

“We’re going to be a very transparent government,” Giesing said. “People are going to be informed of the changes and the concerns. If someone has a problem, I hope that we address that in the best manner possible.”

Many residents hope to play a role in the naming of the building.

The future of over 30 UM System students has become uncertain.

On Tuesday, the Trump administration announced the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. If Congress does not legalize DACA or a similar program within six months, many young people will eventually be deported to their country of origin, including several MU students.

“As a public institution, we certainly have to follow all applicable state and federal laws,” MU spokesman Christian Basi said. “But, we would also certainly provide as much support to any of our students as we possibly could. It would really depend on the situation and it’s really hard to speculate what that might look like.”

The Obama-era immigration policy was created in 2012. It allows young people who were illegally brought to the U.S. before they were 16 years old to go to school and to obtain work permits and driver’s licences. To be eligible for the program, applicants have to be younger than 31 years old and provide evidence to show that they have lived in the U.S. consecutively since June 15, 2007, according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services website.

DACA recipients, also known as

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SKYLER ROSSI

Staff Writer

Among the questions that freshmen are asked the first few weeks of school, “Which dorm do you live in?” proves to be one of the more popular ones. Answers usually include rattling off the hall’s name and complaining how far it is from the Student Center or how noisy the floormates are. But for New Hall residents, the answer to that question hasn’t been so simple.

MU’s newest hall has yet to be named. Even though the MU Residence Halls Association has had a name ready for months, the residence hall started the school year as New Hall.

“There was a huge time crunch to get the hall ready,” New Hall President Ryan Giesing said. “So, yes we are able to host students and have them live here, but we are not to the standard that the other halls are at.”

According to RHA President Maggie Recca, New Hall is

and Jennifer First, doctoral candidate

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missing resources due to rushed construction plans.

Currently, New Hall is sharing a front desk and printers with Brooks Hall. While there are plenty of halls on campus designed to share a front desk, New Hall wasn’t designed to.

MU News Bureau Director Christian Basi did not comment on the future construction plans of the desk.

Giesing plans on addressing these issues throughout the year by

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issue on their behalf, in a time when they feel like they can’t speak for themselves.”

To kick off the rally, biological sciences professor Candace Galen led the crowd in an English and Spanish rendition of “This Land is Your Land”

by Woody Guthrie. Galen believes that music is the best way to show solidarity with groups in times of need.

“This land was made for dreamers.

This land was made for you and me,” Galen said to the crowd.

After the song was over, CoMo for Progress organizers and demonstrators took to the courtyard to deliver speeches on DACA. Immigration lawyer Helene Fehlig Tatum spoke on the difficult week she has had as a result of Trump’s decision.

“It’s a very sad time right now in this country,” Fehlig Tatum said.

“I work with a lot of young DACA students, and these are kids who, unfortunately, now will become more undocumented than before.”

In addition to the various speeches, Kate Canterbury, lead organizer of CoMo for Progress, encouraged the

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overworked caseworkers have always added to inherent flaws.

“There was never some period in the past when people thought [foster care] was working well,” Rymph said. “It’s always been a system that no one thought really served the children it was supposed to serve.”

Graduate student Sean Rost assisted Rymph in some of her research by searching through newspaper advertisements and classifieds that mentioned foster care from various cities over the course of two semesters.

“She gave me the guide points for the research, but she thought I would be looking for a needle in a haystack,” Rost said.

After uncovering various pieces of information, the two continued to email and meet to share sources

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the 2017 state budget to expand the Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders.

Once approved, that money was used by the organization to purchase a second building next door to the original facility and to renovate the majority of its bottom floor, said Dr. Stephen Kanne, executive director of the Thompson Center.

The Thompson Center’s mission is to “improve the lives of individuals and families affected by autism spectrum disorder and neurodevelopmental disorders through world class programs that integrate research, clinical service delivery, education and public policy,” according to its website. The new facility includes research offices, diagnostics, treatment options and support systems

Posters on display at the rally on Sept. 10. KATE SEAMAN | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER crowd to chant along to phrases used in many other rallies against Trump’s various policies this past year. In an effort to energize the crowd, Canterbury shouted, “Legalization, not deportation,” and “No hate, no fear. Immigrants are welcome here,” into a megaphone.

Mobilizing the public was an important objective for many of the speakers at the demonstration. They realized that in order to move forward in combating this issue, work had to

be done.

MU senior Darneisha Coleman urged the crowd to apply the sentiments of this demonstration to their daily lives and take action whenever they can.

“When you see the police trying to raid somebody, as somebody with privilege, what are you going to do to stop it?” Coleman asked. “We can chant all day, but we have to realize that the collective power comes from the organization as a people, not

from the states.”

To help facilitate the after-rally action, organizers passed out contact information of local, state and national government representatives.

Educating people on what steps they can take next is a cornerstone of what CoMo for Progress does at these demonstrations, Doherty said.

“We won’t just say we're done after today,” Doherty said. “This was a step to energize you, but here’s what else we need to do. We need to ask Congress to pass the DREAM Act. Give protection to the 800,000 DREAMers in America.”

Although securing legislation through Congress is considered more of a long-term goal, demonstrators were able to show their support for the immigrant community in a more immediate way just by being there.

Creating a visual representation of solidarity in the form of a rally is important in reassuring DACA recipients during this time of uncertainty, Doherty said.

“It makes me so happy to see so many people out here because this is a scary situation,” DACA recipient Ana Garcia said. “You guys are really what makes America great.”

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from new cities as they continued their search.

Rymph’s colleague, Cassandra Yacovazzi, a postdoctoral teaching fellow in history, assisted in the completion of the book’s index and appreciates how the book illustrates the “complexity” of the foster care system.

The work includes research examining how gender roles and unfulfilled expectations for the welfare state today have each played their part in where the program now stands.

“Dr. Rymph’s work has really changed my perspective on the origins and development of foster care and the very hopeful and optimistic approach that those who developed [the foster care system] had,” Yacovazzi said.

Yacovazzi said the book touches many people’s lives, even those with no connection to the system directly.

“Her book raises the question of what our responsibility is to the

community and the children in the community in which we live,”

Yacovazzi said.

Rymph’s personal attachment to the topic has made the research and creation of the now-finished product even more illuminating.

“It’s helped me to think a lot about how things have changed, what’s at stake really,” Rymph said.

The book is being published by the University of North Carolina Press and is available for pre-order on its website as well as on Amazon.

Rymph will speak Oct. 20 at Jesse Hall 410 at 3:30 p.m. as a Kinder Institute Faculty Advisory Council member about her new book. The event will serve as both a part of Kinder Institute’s colloquium series and a release party.

“I certainly hope that people who read it will think more about what foster care means and what foster parenting means,” Rymph said. “I think it’s a lot of people trying to do their best in an imperfect system.”

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for those affected by autism spectrum disorder.

Garnett Stokes, MU provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs, spoke prior to the ribbon cutting.

Stokes said the center is effective because of the interdisciplinary work being done on all fronts of autism treatment and awareness.

“The Thompson Center houses internationally recognized investigators who study treatment effectiveness, biological markers for diagnosis, social skills, severe behavior intervention and a whole lot more than that,” Stokes said.

Though it owns the entire two-story building, the Thompson Center only occupies about three-fourths of the lower floor. Kanne said this allows for further expansions in the future. He also said the new space will be effective in increasing professional development and training output.

“The other rooms have greatly

increased our ability to train multiple professionals across the states, as well as students,” Kanne said. “We train all across Missouri, all across the nation and all across the world. We host hundreds of parents and teachers and medical professionals every year. We're outfitted with all the new technology that helps support the new training that we do.”

Booths were set up to demonstrate the different research being done on campus for the different areas of autism spectrum disorder, and presentations were given by a variety of professionals from the Thompson Center. Ambassadors for the Columbia Chamber of Commerce also helped with the ribbon-cutting ceremony.

MU Chancellor Alexander Cartwright spoke prior to the ceremony. He said he believes the facility has tremendous potential and upholds MU’s core values.

“The Thompson Center works hard to fulfill MU’s mission of

sharing knowledge with citizens and organizations across the state,” Cartwright said. “Opening the research and training facility represents another step forward in developing quality care for individuals with developmental challenges. This new facility provides new research space and capabilities.”

Cartwright said the opening of this addition demonstrates how an effective relationship between a university and the state government can lead to improvements for the community.

“Further expanding the horizons of the Thompson Center will be of immense importance to the families of Missouri's children,” Cartwright said. “This endeavor is a heartening illustration of how the state and the university can work in tandem for the greater good of all.”

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Continued from page 3 decades of research concerning the link between disasters and domestic violence. The research indicated that disasters result in both more frequent rates and higher severity of domestic violence.

“It’s something that is often hidden,” Jennifer said. “It’s another type of hidden disaster, when it should be something that we should draw more awareness to.”

One possible explanation for the correlation between disasters and domestic violence is that conditions caused by disasters, such as housing difficulties, financial difficulties or unemployment, are stressors that have been associated with increased rates of domestic violence. These stressors can affect the perpetrators, causing more violent behavior, or they can force potential victims into risky situations and dependence on

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“Since it’s our first year living in [New Hall] and we’re the first group of kids living it in, hopefully we can all contribute to the name,” New Hall resident Jefferson Daubitz said.

RHA recommended several names last year. One of the most popular was “Bluford” after Lucile Bluford, a black journalist who was repeatedly denied admission to the MU School of Journalism based solely on her race. “[Bluford] helped our university make great steps towards being more inclusive, increasing our diversity and just stepping into a new and better generation,” Recca said. “She was an outstanding example of a strong woman of color, so I definitely

perpetrators. Furthermore, survivors of disasters can be especially vulnerable to the psychological impact of domestic violence.

“There are increased stressors on the victims of domestic violence that can actually compound the psychological or psychosocial effects of the domestic violence,” Nathan said. “So for instance, somebody who has experienced a disaster and also DV [domestic violence] is more likely to experience PTSD.” The researchers used their analysis of past research to create a framework, which provides domestic violence professionals with information on how to respond in disaster settings.

“Disaster professionals and then domestic violence professionals, they’re often not working together because they’re focused on their areas, obviously,” Jennifer said. “So the goal was to try to bring them together by giving each of those areas insight into the other.”

The framework provides strategies

and objectives for responding to domestic violence in four phases of a disaster: mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery.

The mitigation phase involves identifying risks and hazards in order reduce the potential impact of a disaster. The framework suggests that domestic violence professionals develop connections with organizations and systems that respond to disasters and advocate to create a domestic violence focus within such systems.

Preparedness involves helping people prepare to respond to a disaster if one should occur. Actions to be taken include promoting domestic violence and disaster awareness as well as helping people create plans to remain physically and emotionally safe in a threatening situation.

Response occurs during and immediately following a disaster incident. According to the framework, domestic violence professionals

should ensure basic needs are met and provide comfort and support.

The final phase, recovery, takes place as communities rebuild following a disaster. At this point, victims of domestic violence should be connected to long-term services that promote psychosocial recovery.

The framework was published in an article in Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work in May 2017.

Nathan said his hope is that the framework will increase awareness of the connections between domestic violence and disasters, but he believes that there is still more to be done in this area.

“There are certainly some researchers that have looked into the connections before, but in terms of developing a concerted response to the challenge, I think there is certainly more work to be done,” Nathan said. “We were really just stepping a toe out into that.”

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would prefer that it was her.”

Regardless of persistence from RHA members and students in support of the name, the decision ultimately comes down to the UM System Board of Curators.

“Some of the curators did not like it because she didn’t actually graduate from the University of Missouri,” Recca said. “However, she didn’t graduate because she wasn’t admitted because of her race. We thought that it would be a great tribute to her.”

Former RHA President Matt Bourke said he’s very disappointed with the lack of decision on the name.

“I think that it shows a lot of the bureaucratic difficulties that UM System faces as a whole,” Bourke said. “I think that it also explains that it’s still kind of hard for this university to accept some of our shortcomings and move on from our

history while acknowledging that history.”

New Hall and Brooks Hall are part of the “Dobbs Replacement Project,” a new building plan set to be finished in the next couple of years. These plans include building five new residence halls and the Restaurants at Southwest, which opened at the beginning of the school year. RHA is working with the curators to make the naming process more effective for the future of these other buildings.

“I hope that RHA, and myself on behalf of RHA, will be able to contribute to creating that process to ensure that we don’t have another hall one day named New Hall,” Recca said.

Giesing said his only concern regarding the new name is to avoid naming the building after a faceless donor.

“I don’t like the whole race of ‘my pocket book is bigger than yours, so

therefore I’m going to have my name on something’ because that, in my opinion, is not what this university should be about,” Giesing said.

Recca agreed. She said RHA would much prefer the building to be named after someone who mattered to the university.

In the meantime, New Hall residents are trying to find meaning in their community rather than the name of a building.

“I feel that we’re the ones that make our own identity,” New Hall resident Donte Hopkins said. “It’s not a place that you live but the people around you and the environment you create that can help you make your identity. The name of the building can be whatever you want it to be, as long as you make a community with the people around you.”

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DREAMers, must also prove that they have a clean criminal record and are enrolled in high school or college, or serve in the military.

According to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, there are over 800,000 DREAMers in the U.S. Of that, there are more than 35 DACA students enrolled in the UM System, which includes the campuses in Columbia, St. Louis, Rolla and Kansas City, according to an email to students from UM System President Mun Choi and the chancellors of the four system schools.

Basi said there are fewer than 10 DACA students attending MU. At MU, DACA students are charged the same tuition as international students, according to the email.

DACA students have the same access to campus services as other students.

MU Chancellor Alexander Cartwright has not specified what will happen to MU DACA students, but he has maintained his support for the immigration policy and advocates for its renewal.

“In the near term, we need to stay close to the students, understand where they are right now, what’s changed in their status,” Cartwright

A couple watches the DACA rally on Sept. 10. PHOTO BY KATE SEAMAN | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

said. “As soon as we know more about where things are changing, then we’ll be able to work more closely with them.”

Cartwright signed a letter with the Association of American Universities supporting the renewal of DACA. This letter has been signed by administrators from 57 colleges

and universities across the U.S. The letter, addressed to House Speaker Paul Ryan, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, urges Congress to “immediately enact a permanent legislative solution for the Deferred Action for Childhood

Arrivals (DACA) program.”

On Sept. 5, President Trump tweeted that he will “revisit this issue” if Congress fails to legalize DACA within its six-month time frame.

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A boy who found God through mission trips When it comes to living life in Christ’s footsteps, sophomore Jeremy Richmond lives by the saying, “There’s nothing new under the sun.”

MAWA IQBAL

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There were about 30 people packed in the conference room. After a long day of tearing down and putting up drywall for houses that fell victim to Hurricane Katrina, members of the Tri-Lakes Christian Church had congregated at Camp Hope for their nightly devotional meeting.

One of the mission trip leaders asked the group of young missionaries to speak up about what was troubling them, what was weighing down on their hearts. The leader scanned the conference room until he landed on a single hand raised in the air.

That hesitant hand belonged to nowsophomore Jeremy Richmond, who was quite afraid. Afraid that he had it all wrong. Afraid that he didn't understand anything the passages in the Bible had to say. Afraid of his ignorance of the scripture.

After his confession, that conference room with 30 people didn’t seem so packed after all, for what ensued was a group heart-to-heart. Through misty eyes and a lump in his throat, Richmond’s youth pastor Nick Borcherding confessed his own fear to him as well.

“This is one of my biggest fears, that one of my kids doesn’t know what the answer is,” Borcherding said, according to Richmond.

It was on this mission trip to New Orleans in the summer of 2013 that Richmond received a wake-up call: that he could do so much more with the Word of God. Promptly after the meeting, Richmond began devoting more of his time to the Christian faith — discussing Bible verses with Borcherding, analyzing passages, learning more about the stories and main characters.

But he didn’t feel committed to the faith just yet. Something was missing — something that would solidify his bond to the community and make Christianity the primary focus of his life.

It was on Aug. 25, 2013, standing waist-deep in a pool with two of his closest friends holding either arm that Richmond knew he had found what he was missing.

As he stood in the Denney family’s outdoor pool, he looked around at the crowd surrounding the deck. They were fellow church goers; some were shooting videos with their phones, others just watching. He looked across the pool and saw Tri-Lakes pastor David Patrick sitting on the edge, open Bible in hand.

“You must accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior and have Him as a

Jeremy Richmond, center, pictured with two boys that he met on a mission trip in June 2015 to Guatemala. COURTESY OF JEREMY RICHMOND

Dominion in your life,” Patrick said.

Richmond agreed to those truths.

Wholeheartedly.

And that was their cue. Applying pressure to both of his arms, Richmond’s friends lowered him into the water for a few seconds before pulling him back up to the surface, where he was met with claps, cheers and children jumping into the pool.

“It was very symbolic,” Richmond said of his baptism. “It’s the idea that we have decided to commit our lives to Jesus Christ.”

And with the commitment came the opportunity to be welcomed into a new family. As with most families, a person doesn’t truly feel at home unless he’s surrounded by members of that family.

Richmond considered his church community, wherever the community would be located, as his second family, a sentiment that he would carry with him all the way to college.

But that sentiment wasn’t always there for Richmond and his first family. After his parents divorced when he was 2 years old, Richmond lived with his mother for the next 16 years. Though she believed

in the Gospel, their family didn’t become regulars at the Tri-Lakes Church until after Richmond met Nathan Garrison and Levi Pemberton.

Garrison and Pemberton, who would later that year find themselves dipping Richmond into pool water for his baptism, kept inviting him to youth group programs at the church. It wasn’t until January that Richmond finally agreed and tagged along with them.

He was hesitant. They would constantly assure him that it was a lot of fun, that it would be good for him. But he wasn’t sure. He felt uncomfortable — until he arrived at the first youth group meeting.

Food, games and chitchatting with friends contributed to a relaxing atmosphere which ultimately helped Richmond transition into the program with ease.

What started out as an occasional visit quickly turned into a weekly note on his calendar.

“The ball just kept rolling, and I just kept going,” Richmond said.

That ball rolled across the continent into Central America. In the summer before his senior year of high school,

Richmond, his mother and Borcherding traveled to Guatemala for his second mission trip. Unlike the trip to New Orleans, this trip was geared more toward providing clinical service with an emphasis on sharing the Gospel.

Their work centered primarily around Los Sentimientos, settlements of shanty houses built on top of landfills that stretched 25 football fields wide. The air had been contaminated with the pungent odors from the trash, running water and electricity were absent and there were no paved roads in sight.

Richmond’s mother worked as a pediatrician at the clinic where they were volunteering, where a nurse would check patients’ vital signs and prescribe medicine for their specific ailments. To this day, Richmond’s mother remembers a particular case involving a young boy.

He was barely 5 years old. The toxic air he was breathing in his developing lungs was tearing away at his already fragile respiratory system. Though he was put on a nebulizer, his chances of survival were dwindling with every passing day he spent in that landfill.

“If they don’t take that boy out of there, he will die,” Richmond’s mother said, according to Richmond.

There were less than 30 people packed in that conference room, listening to Richmond’s mother. After a long day of providing care to the residents of Los Sentimientos, the missionaries congregated in that room for their nightly devotional meeting.

This time, Richmond wasn’t afraid. He had nothing weighing down on his heart or troubling him. Nothing to confess.

He did, however, receive a second wake-up call that night. Hearing about that little 5-year-old boy’s case made the trip very real for him, Richmond said.

The people living in Los Sentimientos struggle with putting food on the table, living a lifestyle without health complications, keeping their children out of street gangs, surviving. Despite this, Richmond realized that they have something that many people living in the first world don’t.

“They have more hope and joy in their hearts than we do,” Richmond said.

“When I came back here I felt like I was missing it. It changed the way I looked at things spiritually.”

It made him more humble. Rather than chasing after worldly successes, Richmond is now focused on doing the best he can to follow in the footsteps of Jesus, whether that be using the Gospel as a vehicle to spread hope or loving people the way Jesus loved others.

Although Richmond isn't quite sure what his future will look like, he knows one thing for certain: He will always be serving in a church, becoming part of that second family that welcomes newcomers with open arms, just as he was four years ago in the Denneys’ pool.

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T H E M A N E AT E R | M OV E M AG A Z I N E | SEPT. 13, 2017 AROUND COMO

First Fridays: free art crawl with diverse perspectives Hosted in the North Village Arts District, First Fridays exhibits local artists’ work, providing a place for diversity and appreciation.

EMMY LUCAS

Reporter

From photographs of scenic destinations to local artisans’ handcrafted jewelry, the block stretching from College Avenue to Ninth Street is scattered with studios displaying all forms of art.

First Fridays is a free art crawl in the North Village Arts District on the first Friday of every month from 6 to 9 p.m. Galleries, shops and businesses are all open to the public, offering a variety of entertainment and art as well as food and drink.

For many artists, First Fridays provides an opportunity to display their work, get local recognition and sell their pieces. For photographer Deni Cary Phillips, First Fridays allows her to share her work with others.

“There is something fulfilling in seeing people’s reactions to my photographs,” Phillips said.

By taking photos of geese in a local pond or the Big Oak Tree, Phillips captures timelessness. Phillips sees photography as a means of capturing moments that may never be seen again.

“Photography is a way of stopping time,” Phillips said. “At the moment these geese and their babies floated in front of my lens, I captured it.

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They may float in that pond over and over again, but they will never float exactly the same way again.

Photography is really just a way to stop that time and those moments.”

Phillips is inspired by photography’s ability to preserve history and enjoys sharing her passions at First Fridays.

Walking through the studios First Fridays has to offer, it is easy to indulge in each artist’s workspace and their creations. The art crawl exhibits a wide range of artists and styles,

from paintings and photography to handcrafted jewelry and music.

In Orr Street Studios, artists displayed their paintings, many depicting nature and landscapes.

“I was really impressed by all of the different art forms the art crawl had to offer,” MU freshman Melanie Grupka said. “The diversity aspect was definitely there.”

There are always different themes and new artwork being displayed.

Depending on the time of year,

there are different activities such

as children’s parades and musicians playing outside on the street.

First Fridays is a yearlong, monthly

event supporting local artists at a night of art appreciation. The next

First Fridays crawl will be held on Oct. 6.

Edited by Brooke Collier

bcollier@themaneater.com

MINISTRY

The Salt Company serves community through devotion to Christ Student leader Ashlyn West: “When The Salt Company came down, I knew that community was what I’d been waiting for, what I’d been holding out here for, and they pulled me in immediately.”

ALEXANDRA SHARP

Reporter

Members of The Salt Company support each other as they work together toward spiritual growth.

The Salt Company is a college nondenominational Christian ministry connected to the local Anthem Church that works to know, love and obey Jesus, according to its website. Between biblical teachings and service missions, The Salt Company strives to make the world a loving place by “making disciples that make disciples.”

Since last August when the Salt Company was brought to MU, the organization has grown to approximately 100 members, according to student leader Ashlyn West. For West, learning about The

Salt Company her junior year gave her a home that she hadn’t yet found at MU. “I actually spent my first two years in Columbia very lonely and very lost,” West said. “... And when The Salt Company came down, I knew that community was what I’d been waiting for, what I’d been holding out here for, and they pulled me in immediately.”

West was immediately drawn to The Salt Company because its goals as an organization complemented her personal values. According to West, it was as if God spoke to her through the ministry’s website that it was the right place for her. “[The Salt Company is] incredibly different than anything I’ve ever experienced before in any ministry, any organization in general, just the way they care about my soul and my heart,” West said. “You can tell that they’re coming from a different place and you know they’re motivated by the Gospel. They’re motivated by making Jesus known to the individual, to the community and then globally.”

Similarly to West, student leader Jeremy Richmond also found a home in The Salt Company by how inclusive and loving members were from the very first meeting he attended. Finding a group of people with the same spiritual beliefs and personal values was very important

for Richmond.

“If you’re looking for community and if you’re looking for a place to love others and be loved by others genuinely and also grow spiritually and have opportunities to serve, so be poured into and also pour out, this is the place to go and this is a place you can grow and be comfortable growing here,” Richmond said.

Richmond made this connection with a member of his Connection Group, which is a small spiritual bonding group. According to freshman Kennedy Unthank, Richmond, who is also his residence hall’s floor peer learning assistant, was the first person he met at MU and encouraged him to join The Salt Company. Unthank said this relationship has been very influential in finding a place he feels he belongs in college.

“My values, they’re not really appealing to a lot of other people ...

It’s really reassuring that ... I have [Jeremy] ... right across the hallway who I can talk to about that kind of stuff,” Unthank said.

Unthank believes anyone with internal struggles could attend The Salt Company and talk to someone who would be willing to listen and understand. Richmond has found this to be true when participating in some of The Salt Company’s activities,

including a retreat last year to the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee.

“Just lay down in a canoe with a bunch of people in other canoes and look at the stars in an open area where you can see all the stars at night,” Richmond said. “That’s so special. And like, those kinds of forms of fellowship are really contagious in the way of what it means to believe and grow and knowing Jesus and having him in your life.”

The Salt Company meets in Ellis Auditorium at 8 p.m. on Thursdays and has Connection Group opportunities Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

The organization does not have an official building on campus, so Sunday worship is set up on a temporary stage at the Stoney Creek Inn by student leaders. According to Richmond, The Salt Company helps students become kind community members through these activities.

“So the thing that The Salt Company does that’s so good for students is they cultivate the middle way that when they become adults ... they are able to lead out and be good people to serve in a church, be involved and intentional in their spiritual lives, but also just be lights in the world for others to see,” Richmond said.

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AWARENESS

“It Happened” uncovers the impact of sexual violence from artists’ perspectives

The “It Happened” art exhibit in George Caleb Bingham Gallery, featuring artists who create work on the issue of sexual violence, addressing rape and sexual assault on university campuses, K-12 schools and in communities around the world. PHOTO BY BAILEY VALDEZ

Senior Taylor Bailey: “It is important that a good number of people go and understand the importance. I hope it’s a chain reaction.”

SARAH HASELHORST

Reporter

Initially, the George Caleb Bingham Gallery seems to be a quintessential gallery: crisp white walls, shiny wooden floors and a glow that strategically illuminates each piece of artwork. However, the current exhibition has filled the otherwise typical gallery with profound and significant art that highlights a critical national issue — sexual violence.

The exhibition is called “It Happened.” Displayed are poignant pieces, ranging from vibrant watercolor to powerful videos, which visually articulate the impact of sexual assault and rape. “It Happened” creates a unique forum where people can mentally and emotionally react to the impacts of sexual violence.

Katina Bitsicas, exhibition curator and interim director of digital storytelling, believes that the exhibition humanizes the reality of sexual assault.

“It’s much more effective for change to put out someone’s emotions and soul visually,” Bitsicas said.

Bitsicas and Community Arts Specialist Lee Ann Woolery worked

together in curating “It Happened.”

The two came up with the idea over a year ago after discussing how, to their knowledge, there had never been an exhibition about sexual assault on MU’s campus. Not only did both curate the exhibition, but they also both have pieces on display.

“It was a long process,” Bitsicas said. “Back in November we began contacting artists. We wanted a good variety — male and female, which is important to show sexual assault can happen to anyone. There’s large age range … and a diverse group of artists.”

The inclusivity of artists mirrors the statistics. One in five women and one in 71 men will be raped in their lives, according to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center.

Regarding age, the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network reports that 54 percent of victims of sexual assault are between the ages 18 and 34 and 28 percent are between ages 35 and 64. Though sexual assault occurs among all races, Native Americans are at the highest risk for sexual violence, as they are “twice as likely to experience a rape/sexual assault compared to all races,” according to RAINN. But the exhibit’s purpose is to make sexual assault and rape more than percentages on a page through artwork created by local and national artists.

Taylor Bailey, a senior communication and digital storytelling major, was a student in

Bitsicas’ class when Bitsicas asked if her video could be displayed in the exhibition; Bailey readily accepted.

“If it provides some sort of comfort to one survivor that they aren’t alone, if it changes one person’s mentality about rape culture, then that is enough for me” Bailey’s piece was shot through the victim’s perspective, which she explains was a different approach but also important to do.

“I felt honored being asked for my piece to be part of the exhibition,” Bailey said. “I felt I was helping make an impact. I believe it is important for everyone to care about.”

She notes the experience as powerful and wants exhibition viewers to know the truth about sexual assault.

“It is important that a good number of people go and understand the importance. I hope it’s a chain reaction,” Bailey said.

According to the website, the

curators’ intent for the exhibition is to act as a catalyst for conversation and to bring awareness to perspectives on sexual violence with the purpose to prevent these behaviors. Bitsicas’ main hope for the exhibition is that students simply take time to visit.

“If it provides some sort of comfort to one survivor that they aren’t alone, if it changes one person’s mentality about rape culture, then that is enough for me,” Bitsicas said.

In addition to the exhibition, there is a supplemental curator tour, where Bitsicas and Woolery will speak further on their bodies of work.

Following the tour will be a sponsor talk featuring the representatives from the Relationship and Sexual Violence Prevention Center and Photovoice Missouri, a campaign that encourages teenage students to advocate for positive change in their local communities.

The exhibition is open to view Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. until Sept. 21. The curator tour will take place Sept. 13 from 4 to 5 p.m. in the George Caleb Bingham Gallery. The sponsor talk is scheduled later that evening from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. and will take place in the Allen Auditorium. During the curator tour and the sponsor talk, the RSVP Center will have support services available.

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T H E M A N E AT E R | M OV E M AG A Z I N E | S E P T. 1 3, 2017 HEAD SPACE

Missouri’s most famous painter’s work still a mirror

JACKSON KINKEAD

Columnist

If I learned anything walking around the State Historical Society of Missouri’s current George Caleb Bingham exhibit and talking to Joan Stack, the curator of art collections, it was that things really have not changed that much.

“Old men still get crushes on girls and have to apologize to their wives,” Stack said, laughing as she pointed at a painting across the gallery.

In one of the last exhibits in the historical society’s current location in Ellis Library, the society is showing part of its Bingham portrait collection. This exhibit, Painted Personas, highlights a less-popular side of Bingham’s work.

Bingham is likely Missouri’s

most famous painter. In the mid-1800s, Bingham created America’s most quintessential depictions of the Western frontier and the people inhabiting it. His genre paintings are some of America’s most well-known contributions to the Western world.

Stack helped organize the exhibit and gave a guided walkthrough of the gallery Aug. 26. She is a bit of a Bingham fanatic.

“I sometimes look up and say, ‘Well, that’s a Bingham sky,’” Stack said when talking about her personal connection to Bingham as a fellow lifelong Missourian.

“We have beautiful skies here in Missouri.”

She began the walkthrough with an explanation that the exhibit’s layout was based on function rather than types of individuals. Bingham created each portrait with an intent for it to be displayed in a certain public or private place, like a bedroom or government building, so the historical society preserved his intent by organizing the portraits into their functions.

During her walkthrough of the centuries-old paintings,

George Caleb Bingham’s classic paintings relate to modern social issues.

JACKSON KINKEAD | PHOTOGRAPHER Stack’s excitement was infectious. Often referencing the “panache” of Bingham’s work, every portrait gained a bit of magical energy with each additional anecdote.

Going from painting to painting, Stack focused on the state of society Bingham was trying to portray, though sometimes her admiration

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for his technical skill would burst through.

“Just look at that shoulder!”

Stack said, looking at an anatomically disproportionate portrait.

Bingham’s paintings also show how society changed during his lifetime. Women progressively show more hair, and political tensions are hinted at in a portrait of a Confederate leader.

The crowd at the walkthrough was noticeably aged. I was definitely the youngest person there, which was a shame considering Bingham’s relevance.

As the walkthrough winded down, Stack mentioned how modern controversies over Confederate monuments and iconography have made younger people more attentive to the images around them.

“Portraiture matters in the public sphere,” Stack said. “By studying the art, we learn who we are, who we were and where we are going.”

Despite the grandeur of a painter like Bingham and the exuberance of a fan like Stack, the historical society’s current location can seem underwhelming. Practical, efficient and modest, the main gallery is a dull gray.

The ceilings are low.

“I love to go out on the river and see that kind of Bingham-esque quality to the atmosphere that he captures so well in his river paintings, like the one we have in our

gallery,” Stack said. Yet the space that houses these beautiful Missouri vibes conveys nothing close to that mystical experience.

Maybe that is part of the reason younger people avoid these kinds of places, despite how relevant the lessons within can be.

“Missouri is in some ways a microcosm of the nation,” Stack said. “I think there are things about Missouri, because it’s a place where a lot of people from different places come together that make it an interesting, schizophrenic place. I think his imagery can sometimes tell us a lot of about the nation in 19th century and its relationship with its own diversity.”

Next year the historical society is moving to a new building with a sleek, modern construction that is closer to downtown. It is likely this new location will provide a greater setting to experience Bingham’s and more of the the historical society’s collection. Stack seemed particularly excited about the taller ceilings.

As the historical society’s current location awaits its farewell, its future reincarnation will hopefully mirror a more willful social shift back to the arts.

“No matter your politics, it's good news when people care about art,” Stack said.

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REVIEW

‘The Glass Castle’ explores issues concerning family and maturity The story of a wandering family in the ‘50s is told through flashbacks from the point of view of a young woman played by Brie Larson.

LIV JACKSON

Columnist

Told through a series of flashbacks, The Glass Castle, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, portrays the story of a young family in the ‘50s that wanders from place to place, never living in a permanent settlement for an extended period of time. Woody Harrelson and Brie Larson come together to deliver an emotional and exhilarating performance throughout the film.

Harrelson plays Rex, the father of the Walls family who loves his family fiercely despite his dependence on alcohol. He plans to one day build a home for his family made entirely of glass, which represents an unachievable ideal for completion and

happiness. His daughter Jeannette, played by Larson in adulthood, is his biggest supporter.

In the early years of her adolescence, Jeannette attempts to justify her father’s actions because she sees the potential in him. However, as she ages, she begins to lose faith in him.

Eventually, she moves to New York City and becomes involved with a stable, business-oriented man.

When her mother and father migrate to New York City, Jeanette is forced to confront her unstable past.

Both of her parents express concern for her because they believe she is not living a truly happy or fulfilled lifestyle.

Hauntingly dark subjects such as abuse and abandonment are touched on in this movie, and they provide a deep social commentary. The portrayal of these themes clearly communicates the fact that people can become so emotionally damaged by others in their lives that they begin accepting the abuse inflicted on them.

Throughout the film, the most important storyline is clearly the one

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that follows the impact Rex’s alcoholic tendencies have on his family. This is done through Jeannette remembering her formative experiences that happened in relation to her present interactions with her father.

A handful of intense scenes combine to tell a dramatic and heartwrenching story of how alcoholism affects a family. The damage forces Jeannette to create a substantial amount of distance between herself and her father in her adult life.

Her resentment of her father even pushes her to pursue a relationship with a man who is the stark opposite of him in order to prove to herself that she is capable of change, unlike Rex. Watching the relationship between Rex and Jeannette change throughout the decades is a beautiful tragedy.

The emotionally compelling storyline and powerful acting performances delivered make The Glass Castle a must-see film.

TIGER’S LAIR

PHOTO BY DIEGO GALICIA

MOVE takes a peek into the Tiger’s Lair Junior Brendan Lavell: “Win or lose, it’s really exciting to be that close to the field surrounded by everyone cheering for the same team and one common purpose for our school.”

ASHLEY JONES

Reporter

Gators, Bears and Razorbacks beware before you enter into the Tiger’s Lair.

The University of Missouri’s fan section is one of the most exciting parts of Memorial Stadium.

Newcomers to Faurot Field wouldn’t think that participating in the University of Missouri’s student section would be difficult. Before the first game, the

organization meets to teach students the chants that are provided on its website.

Freshman Ryan Sparks signed up for Tiger’s Lair to get involved at MU and meet new people. Sparks said the chants should not be difficult for new members to learn.

“I don’t think it's stressful,” Sparks said. “It's a football game. There’s a lot of chants, but honestly it’s going to be a learning experience. I’ll just need to look for the people who have done it before and watch their movements.”

The Tiger’s Lair coordinators do not just throw students into the lion’s den.

They attempt to teach them all of the basics, to an extent.

“They did try to teach me the cheers, but they went through it once, so it was just a lot of screaming,” Sparks said.

Although he may not remember all of the chants to start with, Sparks

specifically remembers that there are do’s and don’ts while representing the MU student section.

“No showing up drunk, clothing needs to be on and no storming the field,” Sparks said.

Junior Brendan Lavell has been participating in Tiger’s Lair since freshman year and used financial logic in his decision to join.

“It’s only $25 so I kinda do the math in my head; it’s like $3.50 per game,” Lavell said. “That’s a really good deal to be on the 50-yard line with such great seats. Most student sections in the country are on the corner of the field somewhere and so it’s really a unique experience. Most students don’t get a view of the field like that.”

Lavell has fond memories of his start in Tiger’s Lair, even though the chants took some time for him to master.

“The first couple of games, for me, it

was always realizing that we don’t say ‘Z-O-U’ as well as ‘M-I-Z,’” Lavell said.

“We only say the ‘M-I-Z’ and the other side says ‘Z-O-U,’ but the rest of it took a couple games, but it was fine.”

Junior Kasey Carlson related to struggling with the chants but had some words of encouragement for people who are struggling.

“You catch on pretty fast pretty much,” Carlson said. “I mean, it’s not that hard. You hear it a few times and then you know it forever.”

Regardless of the results of a game, Lavell said Tiger’s Lair creates a great atmosphere in Memorial Stadium.

“Win or lose, it’s really exciting to be that close to the field surrounded by everyone cheering for the same team and one common purpose for our school,” Lavell said.

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NIBBLING AWAY AT CORRUPTION

We need to evaluate the top of the political food chain Sebastian Gorka’s affiliation with an undesirable group brings scrutiny upon advisors in the Trump administration.

MADDIE NIBLETT

Opinion Columnist

Maddie Niblett is a freshman journalism major at MU. She is an opinions columnist who writes about politics for The Maneater.

It was a day like any other: I was running late to class, the sun blazing down on my skin, when I, an unsuspecting college student, received a notification from CNN on my phone. The message said “Trump aide Gorka out; Counterterrorism advisor Sebastian Gorka joins a long list of high-profile departures from the White House.”

This Gorka character certainly wasn’t the first person, and certainly will not be the last, to be fired or to resign from the Trump administration.

This list of unfortunate souls includes, but is not limited to, James Comey, Reince Priebus, Anthony Scaramucci, Sean Spicer, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon.

Since most of these former officials

left amid scandal and national intrigue, I decided to do a cursory Google search for this Gorka fellow and see what the latest outrage was all about. The first article my all-tooeager thumbs clicked on was titled “Sebastian Gorka Made Nazi-Linked Vitezi Rend ‘Proud’ by Wearing Its Medal.” Wait, what?

Apparently, Gorka wore a medal belonging to The Order of Vitez, a Hungarian group that worked under Nazi Germany’s power during the Holocaust. Gorka claims that the medal belonged to his Vitezi father, not to him, and that he himself had absolutely no ties to the group.

Despite this sad attempt at a coverup, Vitezi Rend spokesman András Horváth said he was “proud” of Gorka for wearing the medal.

“What exactly is this mysterious group, and what do they do?” my curious mind wondered. Another cursory Google search (and a quick press of the “translate” button) brought me to the Order’s official website, where one of the featured stories shows the “Commemoration of the Nazi valley heroes.” Conclusion: this group, and by association anyone involved with it, is, to make use of a gross understatement, super shady.

In case there was any doubt that Gorka was actually a member of this Nazi-aligned order, the Forward reported that, “In June 2011, Gorka

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testified in front of the House Armed Services Committee. His official testimony did not list his name as Sebastian L. Gorka, but rather as Dr. Sebastian L. v. Gorka.” The use of the lowercase “V” as a middle initial is a special privilege given to ordained members of the Vitezi Rend, and while membership can be given to the child of a Vitezi member, the use of the initial cannot be passed down from father to son, according to the Forward. Again, Gorka claimed that he only used the initial to — you guessed it — honor his late father.

What was this guy doing in the White House in the first place?

Why did President Trump choose

Dr. Sebastian L. v. Gorka to advise him on all things counterterrorism as a deputy assistant? Who else currently in a position of power in government is involved with such bigoted, dogmatic organizations and ideologies?

The fact that someone like Gorka was involved in our country’s executive branch is telling of either the current administration’s incompetence in choosing top advisors or its (not so) hidden ideological leanings. We the people need to take a much closer look at the people at the top of the political food chain because it’s becoming clear that the people in charge won’t do it for us.

COLUMN

Gone are the days we can safely give companies personal information The Equifax hack shows that now is the time for consumers to tell Congress to take more action to protect their personal data.

SOLOMON DAVIS

Opinion Columnist

Solomon Davis is a sophomore journalism major at MU.He is an opinions columnist who writes about technology for The Maneater.

Last Thursday, America woke up to arguably one of the worst data breaches to date. Equifax, one of the three largest American credit agencies, reported that it had been hacked and 143 million consumers were affected.

One can understand the scope of such a number, but it is not until you find out that you are part of the 40 percent of Americans whose information was stolen, including addresses, Social Security numbers, birthdates, driver’s license numbers and even credit card numbers, that it

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really starts to set in.

Here I am, only a sophomore in college and the victim of a massive data breach, through no fault of my own, that has the potential to impact me for the rest of my life. It is really reassuring to go to bed and know that any moment someone could be bidding for my information on some sketchy site on the dark web.

Right now, not much is known.

In fact, the company is keeping information close to its chest.

What we do know is that the data breach occurred between mid-May and July of this year. Equifax said the criminals somehow exploited a website application that they then used to steal the data.

If you do a little digging, according to an article from Fox Business, the hackers exploited a flaw in the opensource server software the company uses, Apache Struts. In March, Cisco Systems, Inc. let the public know that a bug in Apache Struts was being used in a lot of recent attacks.

Equifax, on the other hand, appears to have ignored the warning and was using an old version of the software.

A website application? At this point, you might be just as confused as I was, because to me, open-source and website application should never be said together in the same sentence with regard to storing Social Security information.

Hackers breaking into sites and stealing passwords has essentially become commonplace.

Yahoo experienced the largest breach in 2013 and 2014 when upward of 1 billion user accounts were hacked. However, the Equifax hack is arguably the worst because it involves Social Security numbers as well as information that can be used to steal the identities of more than 140 million people.

There is no way that I as the consumer can protect myself from the fallout of the Equifax breach.

I was being a good steward of my finances and took advantage of my

free credit report from the agency and now my data is exposed.

The Equifax hack is a call to action. Consumers can no longer stand by and just allow companies to store our data because they have shown they cannot safely handle it. A company that handles such sensitive data should have it stored safer than on a web server someone could easily access and then exploit, but the executives of the company not only failed to see a problem with it, they even used an out-of-date version.

It is time for Congress to start passing comprehensive rules that govern the storage and use of our data and time for companies to take stock of and invest heavily in their cyber security divisions.

Even if you have never heard of Equifax, if you have any type of credit, chances are the company has your information. To see if you are part of the 40 percent of Americans affected, go to equifaxsecurity2017. com.

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SEC NATION

One Missouri football fan holds her sign high in hopes of being on tv during an episode of SEC Nation at the Quad. DIEGO GALICIA | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

‘SEC Nation’ offers Missouri fans a taste of national spotlight The weekly SEC Network program’s visit built anticipation ahead of Missouri’s matchup against South Carolina.

GARRETT JONES

Staff Writer

College football Saturdays are accentuated by their popular pregame shows. Just last week, ESPN’s “College Gameday,” which features high-profile analysts offering insight on the college football world, drew over 2 million American viewers.

Missouri hosted “Gameday” just once in the show’s existence, in 2010, showing just how special it is for the set to visit campus.

Missouri nonetheless got a taste of that experience when the school

“SEC Nation” crew members (left to right) Laura Rutledge, Tim Tebow, Marcus Spears and Paul Finebaum smile after their show. DIEGO GALICIA | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

landed “SEC Nation,” a spin-off of

the best game in the Southeastern

“Gameday,” last Saturday.

Conference and travels to the host

Each week, “SEC Nation” selects

school of that game to film the show.

On air, star analysts offer “Gameday”style takes on SEC matchups.

The show’s cast includes SEC pundit Paul Finebaum, Heisman Trophywinning quarterback Tim Tebow, former Dallas Cowboy defensive end Marcus Spears and sports journalist Laura Rutledge.

The proverbial stars aligned perfectly for Missouri; the Tigers’ matchup against South Carolina was the only conference game on the schedule and many lauded it as an exciting nighttime matchup.

Fans and students lined up outside the set at Francis Quadrangle as early as 6 a.m. Saturday to get front-row access to the show.

“It made the gameday experience a lot better because everyone was excited before the game,” sophomore

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GAME RECAP

Thirty seconds to futility: plays that defined Missouri’s loss to South Carolina The Tigers were outscored 31-3 after the 13:07 mark in the second quarter.

JOE NOSER

Assistant Editor With 13:07 to go in the second quarter of Saturday night’s contest against South Carolina, Missouri football led 10-0 and Memorial Stadium was electric. Thirty seconds later, stunned Tiger fans watched in

horror as the Gamecocks tacked on the extra point to go up 14-10.

The Gamecocks never looked back, throttling the Tigers the rest of the way en route to a 31-13 victory. So how did it all go wrong for Missouri?

Mizzou’s woes began with poor special teams play. Sophomore placekicker Tucker McCann had done a solid job of kicking away from standout Gamecock kick returner Deebo Samuel on the previous two kickoffs, but his third try went right to the redshirt junior. Samuel made

the Tigers pay, taking the kickoff 97 yards down the left sideline for the Gamecocks’ first touchdown of the day.

Head coach Barry Odom said his team’s lack of awareness on the play, and on special teams in general, was too much for Missouri to overcome.

“We didn’t do a good job on placing the ball; we didn’t do a good job on getting it across the formation in coverage,” Odom said. “That’s sloppy, that’s focus, that’s coaching, that’s details, that focus … It’s not

very good. It cost us the game.”

Redshirt junior safety Kaleb Prewett, who was on the kick return defense team, said McCann’s kick put the kick return defense in an unfortunate situation, but that they still have to be able to adjust while the ball is in the air.

“When the kick’s shorter and it’s not in the right position, you have to get into your lane a lot quicker and

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T H E M A N E AT E R | S P O RTS | SEPT. 13, 2017 CROSS-COUNTRY

FOOTBALL

Stephen Mugeche returns to cross-country competition after transferring from Arkansas

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Missouri football axes defensive coordinator DeMontie Cross JOE NOSER

Assistant Editor Stephen Mugeche COURTESY OF ANDREW MELROE AND MIZZOU ATHLETICS

Months after his transfer from Arkansas, Mugeche returned to the course at the JK Gold Classic last Saturday, this time in a Missouri uniform.

ANDERSON KIMBALL

Reporter

For redshirt sophomore Stephen Mugeche, the wait was finally over.

After 16 months, Mugeche returned to competition, finishing 35th at the JK Gold Classic last weekend in his debut for the Mizzou men’s cross-country team.

Mugeche, a transfer from Arkansas, missed last season as a result of transfer rules requiring runners to sit out a year when transferring to a school within the same conference.

During his year away, Mugeche trained back home in Blue Springs, Missouri, with his former high school teammates at Blue Springs High School, just outside the Kansas City area.

Missouri head coach Marc Burns described Mugeche as “one of the most decorated Missouri runners in a long time.”

Along with the Blue Springs team, Mugeche won the state track team championship in 2014 and the individual state cross-country championship in 2014 against current MU teammates freshman Austin Hindman and sophomore Dylan Quisenberry.

Quisenberry remembers what it was like racing against Mugeche in high school.

“He was always a phenomenal athlete and definitely someone who, when I was younger, I was chasing after,” Quisenberry said. “He was a super good guy who was always super encouraging to younger athletes who were up and coming.”

Now, Quisenberry enjoys having Mugeche as a teammate instead of a competitor.

“First of all, he is incredibly outgoing,” Quisenberry said. “Always just a phenomenal teammate to have around. Just a super great guy and a really good competitor. He’ll ask you a question and then bounce off 10 more questions to understand you better and to get to know you better because he’s just a really thoughtful guy.”

After sitting out, Mugeche was eager to return to racing. Mugeche’s last competitive

race was for Arkansas on May 5, 2016 during the outdoor track season.

“I’m most excited for racing again,” Mugeche said. “It’s been a long time. The fact that I’m going to be able to race again and train with a group of guys again is gonna be great.”

Mugeche’s familiarity with coach Burns and the runners on the team played a major role in his decision to come to Columbia.

Mugeche had previously considered attending Missouri before committing to Arkansas.

“Once [the transfer from Arkansas] worked out I got into contact with a few coaches, and coach Burns is one of the first coaches I talked to afterwards,” Mugeche said. “I went on a second visit after we talked on the phone and that’s when I decided to make the decision to come here, and I think I made the right decision so far.”

The transition has gone smoothly for Mugeche, who is happy to be back in his home state.

“It’s been good,” Mugeche said. “I’ve been out of it for quite some time. Arkansas was good for me, but it just didn’t work out for me. I’m just happy to be back in my home state of Missouri.

I’ve known coach Burns and coach Halter for a very long time. The classes and the training have been different, but it’s something I believe I can get used to. Overall, it’s been great.”

Burns has been pleased with the transition and is satisfied with how well Mugeche has meshed with the rest of the team.

“You never know how the transition is gonna go, and it’s gone awesome,” Burns said.

“The guys respect him for his work ethic and his soft-spoken leadership. He’s not an in-yourface guy, but when he speaks you’re like, ‘Wow that was really good.’ He’s very thoughtful.”

Burns is not only excited for the impact Mugeche can make on the team this year, but he’s also eager to see what lies ahead for Mugeche in the future.

“From a running standpoint he is an incredibly talented kid,” Burns said. “We feel like it’s gonna take a bit of time, but we feel like he is a guy that can help lead us into the future and help our men’s team get back to the NCAA meet here soon and challenge for SEC titles down the road.”

Edited by Anna Sirianni asirianni@themaneater.com

Missouri football announced the firing of defensive coordinator DeMontie Cross on Sunday evening, ending a disappointing tenure for the coach who lasted less than three years with the program.

Cross was hired by head coach Barry Odom to be the team’s defensive coordinator when Odom took over as head coach in 2015. But Cross failed to get production out of his defense, which has historically been the strong suit of Missouri football teams. As a result, Odom took over Cross’ play-calling duties in 2016 and scrapped some schematic changes Cross had orchestrated.

Odom said in a statement that he was proud of Cross’ contributions to the program but that it was time to make a change.

“I am very appreciative of all that DeMontie has done for Mizzou, and am sorry that this did not work out; however, after careful evaluation, I believe it is important to make this change now,” Odom said in the statement.

Through two games in 2017, Missouri has allowed a Southeastern Conferencehigh 37 points per game.

Against South Carolina on Saturday, the Tigers did not force a turnover and sacked the quarterback just once.

Cross also coached inside linebackers. It remains to be seen whether or not Missouri will hire another defensive coordinator from outside of the program, promote from within the coaching staff or keep Odom in charge of the defense for the remainder of the season.

Edited by Eli Lederman elederman@themaneater.com

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MEN’S GOLF

Two Scottish golfers find new home in Missouri men’s golf Rory Franssen and Jamie Stewart were teammates on the Scotland National Team and are now teammates at Mizzou.

COLE BOLLINGER

Staff Writer

When walking around the Club at Old Hawthorne, you expect to see a couple of retired Columbia residents finishing up a round of golf or maybe some local college students taking a break after classes. What you might not expect to hear is the lilt of a Scottish accent as you practice at the putting green.

To some, that might seem out of place. For sophomore Rory Franssen and freshman Jamie Stewart, it’s a familiar sound. Off to a great start in their collegiate golfing careers, both Franssen and Stewart have come to the University of Missouri from Scotland to hone their skills.

Franssen has hopes of following in the footsteps of fellow Scot Russell Knox, who is now on the PGA Tour after graduating from Jacksonville University in 2007. Because of Knox’s success, Franssen had always wanted to move to America, and when Coach Mark Leroux emailed him a few years ago about coming over for a visit, Franssen did not let the opportunity pass by.

“I came out on a visit and I just

loved it, so it was an easy decision from there really,” Franssen said. “I was just blown away by all the facilities. It was unbelievable.”

Franssen started playing golf when he was 9 after his dad got him interested in it.

“He always was wanting me to play golf,” Franssen said. “I played a lot of soccer and stuff when I was younger but I eventually started to play golf and picked up [that] I quite liked it. I think he was pretty happy with that.”

While some native Missourians may complain about the weather, it can actually be quite the advantage when Leroux pitches Mizzou to golfers, and it was especially helpful for Franssen and Stewart’s recruitments.

“The Scottish kids, you're telling them, ‘Hey, look, you come here and our fall weather is fantastic. It's way better than it is in Scotland any time of year,’" Leroux said. “Then again, probably the weather pitch for the spring is, ‘Yeah, it's gonna snow here occasionally, but the courses are open year round and we're gonna get through that.’ So, extending their playing season I think is very attractive to them.”

Stewart and Franssen were former teammates on the Under-16 Scotland golf team. Following in Franssen’s footsteps, Stewart arrived at Mizzou a year later. Unlike Franssen, however, Stewart started playing golf a “wee bit” later at the age of eleven. He also took to it by himself.

“I grew up in a small village where there was actually two golf courses

right by my house,” Stewart said.

“There's not much else to do back where I come from, so I took myself up, and I just practiced and played from that.”

Starting freshman year in a school far from home can be difficult for anyone, but having that connection with Franssen has helped Stewart’s transition become a little easier.

“It's just back to relating with somebody sometimes,” Stewart said.

“People kind of struggle to understand the accent and stuff like that. It's so good to have somebody from the same background as you.”

While they experienced Columbia on their visits, neither expected how large Missouri’s campus can feel at times. “[Campus is] definitely busier than I thought,” Franssen said. “I thought it was going to be just a breeze. You play some golf, just relax, but it's pretty intense.”

“Especially during the day, during classes,” Stewart said. “When you walk about, you realize how many people go to the uni. Yeah, so it's mental.”

For Stewart, things may seem overwhelming at times, but having Franssen and his other teammates has helped. Stewart has relied on them to show him the ropes when it comes to classes and getting acclimated.

“They've been great,” Stewart said.

“They're so nice. Everybody's great, the coaches are good. They've been really good to me, actually.”

Along with Franssen, Stewart also

shares a room with fellow freshman golfer Jack Parker, a Fr. Tolton Catholic High School graduate from Columbia.

“Yeah, Jack's been great,” Stewart said. “He's got a car so he can give us lifts and stuff.”

While Franssen and Stewart may be busy with a sports season of their own, they still have time to follow the other teams on campus.

“I love going to the football games,” Franssen said. “I learned a lot last year because I had no idea what it was before, but I really like them.

And obviously I'll probably go to the basketball games this year.”

Stewart is also interested to see how the basketball team does this year.

“That's what everyone's attention is on because of the new stars,” Stewart said. “You don't really get American football back home and you don't really get basketball to an extent, as well. So I'm just looking forward to going to all kind of different sports.”

Coming to the U.S. to play golf has given Franssen and Stewart the opportunity to learn more both from a golf and a culture standpoint. Leroux agrees that mixing cultures will only help the players grow into better men and golfers by being part of the team and learning from and supporting each other.

“If you have Missouri kids, kids from around the U.S., some international kids, I think culturally the experience is better,” Leroux said.

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Jack Sarkas said. “Normally, I’m not pumped up until I walk into the stadium.”

Missouri students and fans alike completely surrounded the show’s set and formed a mass that stretched to the Columns from the set’s location on the northwest end of the quad.

Campus notables such as head football coach Barry Odom appeared on set, while freshmen basketball sensations Jontay and Michael Porter

Jr. participated in an on-air game of cornhole.

At the end of the program, analysts offered their picks for the matchup. Tebow and Spears both selected South Carolina to win the game, while Finebaum emphatically picked Missouri by starting an “M-IZ” chant in the crowd and banging

on Marching Mizzou’s Big MO drum.

“SEC Nation” last came to Columbia in November 2015, ahead of Missouri’s matchup against Mississippi State. Saturday was the third time the show has visited since its inception.

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get over and fill your gap, and we just weren’t ready for that,” Prewett said.

Another team could probably handle giving up a huge kick return touchdown.

Sure, some of the energy was zapped from the stadium, but with the offense headed back out on the field and Mizzou still leading, who could say the Tigers couldn’t regain the momentum?

Drew Lock, that’s who.

On the first play immediately following Samuel’s kick return, Lock stared down his receiver along the Missouri sideline, giving South Carolina nickelback Jamyest Williams plenty of time to step in front of his man and pick up the interception.

Lock’s pick was nothing short of unacceptable, but it fit a trend of other ill-advised throws the junior has made in his career. He has consistently shown an inability to fool SEC defenses with his eyes, telegraphing far too many throws that have often led to interceptions.

Saturday was no exception.

Following Lock’s interception, South Carolina ran a jet sweep around the left side of the line of scrimmage to Samuel for another touchdown, and the Tigers’ fate was sealed.

Prewett had a suggestion for how the Tigers can rebound when things don’t go their way going forward.

Players run out on the field prior to Missouri’s game against South Carolina. ANDERSON KIMBALL | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

“We just gotta be some badasses, I guess,” Prewett said. “We’ve got to come out and play our hardest for all [60] minutes of the game.”

If Mizzou can heed Prewett’s advice for the the rest of the season, the team

may end up being just fine and push itself out of irrelevance in the SEC East and back into championship conversations.

But if its answer to frustration is anything like the answer that came Saturday night, it’s going to be a

long, miserable season in Columbia.

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